Marina Warner Quotes
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
